Before this class Excel was a program that I stayed away from. I thought Excel was for business and math majors. I only associated Excel with formulas. I'm pleased to say that I was wrong. Excel is a computer program that allows you to simplify and organize your life. For example , it is a great for teachers because it allows them to keep track of their students' grades and attendence all in the same doctuments. It also great for keeping track of other things like books or class budgets.
The thing that made me love Excel the most is it allows teachers to engage students who are more visual or kinesthetic learners. A visual learner may understand multiplication if they can see it on Excel. A kinesthetic will enjoy creating charts and finding formulas instead of listening to a lecture.
1. Reading
A students can make a list of goals they would want to accomplish before the end of the month. For example, I want to know 15 high frequency words out of 30 and then every week they can graph their progress on a pie chart so they can see their progress.
Standards
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving,
and Decision Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research,
manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
b. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project
2. Social students (economics)
Students can research and graph money trends to learn about the great depresion. They can also compare and contrast present till now.
Standards
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry
b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
d. Process data and report results
3. Economics
Making their own business
Students can get into groups and then create their own business. They can keep track of the expensive and profits.
Standards
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression
c. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
d. Identify trends and forecast possibilities
4. Math
They can make pretend schedules to teach time management and then graph how many hours they spend watching tv
Standards
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital
5. Music/math
They can survey people and see what is their favorite music genre? Then they can ask the classmate how do they feel on scale of 1-5 when you listen to a certain genre then graph their responses.
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